Timonium, Md. - Online retail giant Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN) on Tuesday launched a new payment option developed by Bill Me Later, which allows customers to pay for their purchases online without using a credit card. The move comes eight months after Amazon first announced plans to make an equity investment in the company as part of a larger partnership. The Maryland company's service allows shoppers to provide their birth date and last four digits of their social security number, and receive a bill in the mail.

Marietta, Ga. - Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN) has acquired Marietta, Ga.-based Fabric.com, an online fabric store offering custom measured and cut fabrics, as well as patterns, sewing tools and accessories.

New York - The nonprofit Tribeca Film Institute on Monday announced the launch of Reframe, an online service that will help filmmakers, libraries and other media owners digitize, market and sell their classic and hard-to-find films and video content using the Internet.

New York - The Talk Market, a new user-generated TV shopping channel, announced on Monday that it has received an equity investment from online retail giant Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN).

Los Angeles - Amazon's (NASD: AMZN) recently introduced Kindle electronic e-book reader device now accounts for 6% of titles sold through the site -- or an estimated 125,000 units, chief executive Jeff Bezos said on Wednesday at the All Things D conference, PaidContent reported. The $359 Kindle also features wireless Web access, a Web browser, and delivery of newspapers, magazines and blogs in addition to books.

Los Angeles - Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN) plans to launch a streaming video service in the next few weeks, according to remarks made by chief executive Jeff Bezos at The Wall Street Journal's D: All Things Digital conference on Wednesday, Reuters reported.

Ann Arbor, Mich. - Borders Group (NYSE: BGP), which operates a chain of 1,100 stores that sell books, music and movies, announced on Tuesday that it has re-launched its own new e-commerce site, after severing a seven-year relationship with rival Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN).

Seattle - Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN) on Thursday launched the Amazon MP3 Clips Widget, which bloggers and website owners can post on their sites to offer song samples from the catalog of over 5 million tracks at the Amazon MP3 store. Users can also generate revenue if they join the Amazon Associates program, which offers up to 10% in referral fees when visitors click through the widget to purchase songs from Amazon.

New York - Animoto, the developers of a Web application that lets users automatically generate video slideshows from their photos and music, announced on Thursday that it has received an investment from Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN).

Seattle - Online retail giant Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN) has announced that it will offer any consumer who purchased an HD DVD player on its site a $50 store credit, following similar moves by retailers Best Buy and Wal-Mart. The deal is good through April 9 for anyone who purchased an HD DVD player before Feb. 23, the day that Toshiba said it would abandon the format and cede victory in the next-generation DVD "format war" to rival Sony's Blu-ray.

New York - CBS-owned (NYSE: CBS) music discovery service Last.fm said on Wednesday that, since it launched free full-song streaming on its site in January, overall CD and download sales through its partnership with Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN) are up 119%. The free streaming feature has also fueled a 66% increase in album and tracks purchased at Amazon from existing Last.fm users. "In just over two months it's become clear that people will buy CDs and downloads if they get access to the kind of service we offer," said Last.fm co-founder Martin Stiksel, who added that minutes spent on site are also up 118% month-on-month.

Los Angeles - Apple's (NASD: AAPL) iTunes Store in Canada has removed several songs by Jamaican dancehall artists from its catalog, after complaints about lyrics that advocate the killing of gay people were raised by LGBT groups Egale Canada and Stop Murder Music, Xtra.ca reported.

Seattle - Amazon.com on Friday announced the relaunch of its Latin Music Store, which counts nearly 140,000 albums spanning 28 separate genres of Latin music.

Seattle - Online retail giant Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN) on Wednesday announced the launch of a new feature that lets consumers use text messages to find and buy products. "With TextBuyIt, if you're walking out of a concert and want to buy a CD from the artist you just saw, or if you're at dinner and a friend tells you about a great book you should read, all you have to do is get out your mobile device, send a text message to Amazon, reply to the response, confirm your order, and your item will be on its way," said Howard Gefen, director of Amazon Mobile Payments.

Seattle - Online bookseller Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN) has changed its policy with regard to its print-on-demand service for publishers, now requiring that print-on-demand books listed for sale on its site actually be printed through its own BookSurge service, instead of by any third-parties.

Los Angeles - Online retail giant Amazon.com is (NASD: AMZN) set to produce its first full-length motion picture, partnering with 20th Century Fox to adapt "The Stolen Child," a fantasy novel written by Keith Donahue, Variety reported.

Seattle - Online retail giant Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN) announced on Thursday that it will acquire Audible.com, a distributor of audiobooks and other spoken word audio content, for $300 million. Founded in 1995, New Jersey-based Audible offers over 80,000 programs on its websites in the U.S. and U.K., and through alliances in Germany and France.

Seattle - Online retail giant Amazon.com has announced plans to begin an international rollout of its new DRM-free music store, Amazon MP3, which launched in the U.S. in September and now offers MP3s from all four major labels and over 33,000 independents. The company did not disclose a specific launch timeline for individual Amazon MP3 international websites, saying only that the rollout would begin in 2008.

Ann Arbor, Mich. - Books and media retail store chain Borders Group (NYSE: BGP) plans to launch its own retail website next month -- and may offer MP3 downloads -- after taking back that responsibility from Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN), which has operated Borders.com since 1991. Borders is the nation's second-largest bookseller, behind Barnes & Noble, but for years has been sharing the profits from its online sales with rival Amazon.

Cambridge, Mass. - Basis Technology, a provider of software for text analytics, information retrieval, and name resolution in several languages, on Friday announced that The Appeals Court of Massachusetts has ruled in its favor over online retailer Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN) in a long-standing dispute relating to the establishment of Amazon's Japan subsidiary and its Japanese e-commerce site.